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On This Day in Sport (08 May 2010):

1896: Yorkshire completed a record innings in the County Championship when they scored 887 against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
1908: Yorkshire bowled out Northamptonshire for 27 and 14 in a County Championship match at Northampton.
1923: Surrey and England batsman Jack Hobbs scored his 100th career century.
1932: Former world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston was born. He took the title with a first-round knockout of Floyd Patterson in 1962 and retained it a year later by beating the same man. He lost his crown to Cassius Clay in 1964 and was beaten by the same opponent, then Muhammad Ali, trying to regain the title the following year. He died in 1970.
1990: Sir Jack Hayward completed a £2.1million takeover of Wolves with the club's former England captain Billy Wright taking a place on the board.
2001: Leeds' bid to reach the Champions League final ended with a 3-0 defeat by Valencia in the second leg of their semi-final in Spain. Leeds had Alan Smith sent off.
2002: Sylvain Wiltord scored the winner as Arsenal beat closest rivals Manchester United 1-0 to clinch the Premiership title at Old Trafford. 2004: Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan broke the world record for most wickets in Test history, going past Courtney Walsh's total of 519 in the first Test against Zimbabwe. Murali has since been overtaken by Shane Warne.
2005: Wigan were promoted to the Premiership after a 3-1 win at home to Reading secured second place in the Championship.
2006: Sven-Goran Eriksson named 17-year-old Theo Walcott in his provisional England World Cup squad despite the teenager not having played in the Premiership for Arsenal.

Headlines (08 May) :

Carragher set for recall
Jamie Carragher's international retirement will come to an end when he is named in England's preliminary 30-man squad
Westwood grabs lead
Lee Westwood leads by one at the halfway stage of the Players Championship after a brilliant 65, but Ian Poulter, Paul Casey and Brian Davis miss the cut
Zola remains in the dark
Gianfranco Zola will meet with the West Ham owners next week to thrash out his future - but he has no idea what to say
Reds duo will not be leaving
Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton dismisses suggestions Fernando Torres or Steven Gerrard will have to be sold to ease the club's mounting debt
Harry wins Manager of the Year
Harry Redknapp is named Premier League Manager of the Year for taking Tottenham into the top four
Red Bull out in front
Sebastian Vettel is quickest in Barcelona practice, finishing ahead of his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber and Michael Schumacher
Australia batter India
Australia smash 16 sixes in their 49-run victory over woeful India in a one-sided Super Eight clash in the World Twenty20
Serena falls to Jankovic
Serena Williams is left to rue a squandered match point as Serbia's Jelena Jankovic books her place in the final of the Italian Open

International Results Roundup

Dateline 07 May 2010

CRICKET
Sussex v Middlesex LV County Championship - Division Two at Hove
Sussex 217 all out 69.3 ovs 321 all out 92.5 ovs Middlesex 296 all out 83.2 ovs 122 - 5 31 ovs Close of play
ICC World Twenty20 Group F
Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 57 runs.
GOLF
Maekyung Open
Collated second round scores & totals in the OneAsia GS Caltex Maekyung Open, Namseoul Country Club, Seoul, South Korea(Kor unless stated, par 72):
136 Kim Kyung-Tae 68 68 138 Kim Dae-Sub 67 71, Kim Dae-Hyun 67 71 139 Masaya Tomida (Jpn) 69 70, Han Min-Kyu 70 69 141 Hong Soon-Sang 72 69 142 Kang Ji-Man 69 73, Michael Wright (Aus) 70 72, Stephen Allan (Aus) 69 73, Chung Joon 71 71, David Gleeson (Aus) 72 70, Hyun Jeong-Hyup 71 71, Go Higaki (Jpn) 71 71, Leigh Mckechnie (Aus) 70 72
Italian Open (R2)
Collated second round scores & totals in the European Tour BMW Italian Open, Royal Park I Roveri, Turin, Italy(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72)
136 Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 70 66 137 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 68 69, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 68, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 71 66, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) 70 67, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 70 67 139 Andrew McArthur 73 66, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 71 68, David Horsey 68 71 140 Robert Rock 67 73, Steve Webster 72 68, Peter Whiteford 69 71, Paul Lawrie 67 73, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 71 69, Matteo Manassero (Ita) 70 70, Andrew Coltart 70 70, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 69 71, Graeme Storm 67 73
The Players Championship
Collated second round scores & totals in the USPGA Tour THE PLAYERS Championship, The TPC at Sawgrass, Ponte Vedra Beach, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 72):
132 Lee Westwood (Eng) 67 65 133 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 68 65, Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 67 66, Heath Slocum 67 66 135 Lucas Glover 70 65 136 Ben Crane 67 69, Charley Hoffman 68 68, Robert Allenby (Aus) 66 70, Luke Donald (Eng) 67 69 137 Graeme McDowell (NIrl) 72 65, Davis Love III 69 68, John Rollins 68 69, Bill Haas 68 69, Paul Goydos 69 68, K J Choi (Kor) 69 68, Bo Van Pelt 68 69, Ryan Moore 67 70
TENNIS
ATP BMW Open
Quarter-final:
(2) Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) bt Jan Hajek (Cze) 6-1 6-3
Philipp Petzschner (Ger) bt (3) Tomas Berdych (Cze) 1-6 6-3 6-4
(5) Marcos Baghdatis (Cyp) bt (4) Philipp Kohlschreiber (Ger) 6-3 6-4
(1) Marin Cilic (Cro) bt (6) Nicolas Almagro (Spa) 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 6-2
ATP/WTA Estoril Open
Men's Quarter-final:
(4) Albert Montanes (Spa) bt (8) Pablo Cuevas (Uru) 6-4 6-3
(5) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) bt Alberto Martin (Spa) 6-0 2-0 ret
(1) Roger Federer (Swi) bt Arnaud Clement (Fra) 7-6 (9-7) 6-2
Frederico Gil (Por) bt Rui Machado (Por) 4-6 7-6 (7-1) 6-3
Women's Semi-final:
Anastasija Sevastova (Lat) bt (7) Shuai Peng (Chn) 6-7 (6-8) 6-1 6-3
Arantxa Parra Santonja (Spa) bt (2) Sorana-Mihaela Cirstea (Rom) 6-1 6-4
ATP Serbia Open
Quarter-final:
(2) John Isner (USA) bt Richard Gasquet (Fra) 2-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-3
(4) Stanislas Wawrinka (Swi) bt (6) Viktor Troicki (Ser) 7-5 6-7 (3-7) 7-6 (8-6)
Add Quarter-final: (3) Sam Querrey (USA) bt Igor Andreev (Rus) 6-3 2-6 6-4
Filip Krajinovic (Ser) bt (1) Novak Djokovic (Ser) 6-4 ret
RALLYING
Former world champion Petter Solberg is the surprise leader after the opening day of the Rally of New Zealand. The Norwegian, driving a privately entered Citroen, leads Ford's Jari-Matti Latvala by just 1.4 seconds after a day that saw title rivals Sebastien Loeb and Mikko Hirvonen hit trouble. Loeb, who holds a 40-point lead in the standings as he searches a seventh-consecutive world crown, struck a bridge on the day's fourth stage and lost over a minute as he was forced to hold his C4 WRC's door shut for the remainder of the test.